Cyberstrategics

In the beginning of the (ISC)² blog a number of us enjoyed contributing because the blog was full of posts insightful original security-related pieces.   However, over time,  many of us have simply stopped  writing for the (ISC)² blog.

One main reason for this is that we don’t want to spend the time to write a thoughtful, original piece and post it in between myriad “cut-and-paste” blog posts.   I have brought this to the attention of the (ISC)² staff a number of times, and each time I have kindly receive the standard canned “thank you for your comment” reply, and nothing changes. According to the (ISC)² web site:

(ISC)² established this blog to provide a voice to its certified members, who have significant knowledge and valuable insights to share that can benefit the information security industry, the people in it and the public at large.

Here are my suggestions to improve the (ISC)² blog:

• Authors should post original content that is written by an (ISC)² member.
• Authors should not post “referral content” and “links” unless the links and referred content are an minor element of a larger, original, thoughtful story related to the security topic at hand.
• Authors should never post an article that is mostly a “cut-and-paste” from other sources.

One of the worst offending posts at the (ISC)² blog is the constant dumping of the “Weekly Summary of the DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report”.  As I write this post, there are no less than five of these long, cut-and-past posts.  This is a type of blog-spam, in my opinion. A single link to the DHS reports (main site) in a blog-roll would be sufficient.   After all, if I wanted to read the Weekly Summary of the DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report, I would go visit the DHS web site.  Instead, these long cut-and-paste reports are dumped on the (ISC)² blog.    This type of cut-and-paste posting really hurts the quality of a blog.

There are other posts that I find “less than appealing”on the (ISC)² blog as well.  I describe these as short posts that are simply pointers to information, websites, or papers elsewhere on the Internet.   I don’t know about you, but if I wanted information from other sites, I can “Google” that info very easily and I don’t need an “Internet librarian” to act as an agent, reposting non-original information on the (ISC)² blog.

I hope the (ISC)² staff will take notice of my post and revise the posting guidelines.

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